What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah

Explore what would happen if all of humanity’s satellites disappeared and the real-life scenarios that could lead to such a catastrophe.
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What would happen if one day all of humanity’s artificial satellites suddenly disappeared? Within hours, most of the planet’s traffic would grind to a halt, the world economy would shut down, and most countries would declare a state of emergency. Even in the best-case scenario, our civilization would be set back by decades. So, what are the odds of this actually happening? Moriba Jah investigates.
Lesson by Moriba Jah, directed by Darvideo Animation Studio.
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[@badhrihari1705]

Don't give 2021 any ideas Ted-Ed

[@angelfish8062]

Lets hope so

[@parissalvacion2492]

🤣

[@AlejandroCubaRuiz]

😆😆😆

[@user-ne5dx4js3b]

Lol Lmao

[@tonywalker8989]

premonition... just wait

[@shreeyamittal1771]

Can't believe this concept has never been turned into dystopian novel reality...

[@minerxen]

E

[@IAmTheAce5]

That’s a scifi I’m trying to create- a future suffering from Kessler syndrome cutting us off from our own orbit

[@noedem1690]

From memory, there is spin that has a similar idea : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(novel) At least for the idea of stopping communications with space. I don't remember what were the implications of it on the ground

[@clothilde8905]

It does ! It reminds me of the french novel "Ravage" from Barjavel I strongly advice you to read it if you like that type of subject

[@polishedpebble4111]

A lot of people want to go back to the 1950s though.

[@albertamalachi3560]

Some 'James Bond Villain' is probably having a eureka moment right now from watching this.

[@girlishville]

Lol so true

[@richardavery2894]

Best plan ever!!! I mean worst plan ever amiright???

[@MSeaNP]

Maybe a few 'Johnny English' villains too.

[@justlisten82]

If a criminal got a eureka moment from this they dont have what it takes to pull it off lol.

[@FlavioMartinez97]

LOL

[@boogeymann6686]

TedED: What if satellites suddenly disappear? The moon: I don't feel so good

[@devathma]

ok.

[@nathanyan1126]

ok.

[@june756]

🤣🤣 lol , their whole video is wasted cuz the answer is there will be no yellow bulb in sky anymore .(poor moon she's gonna disappeare)🤣

[@sampadsaha3031]

0:11 "Artificial Satellites"

[@MEMED0021]

@@sampadsaha3031 it is a joke

[@keltonexplains6415]

I'm no economic expert, but my hypothesis would be that the carrier pigeon industry would see a sharp resurgence, along with tiny malnourished messenger boys to carry information.

[@badhrihari1705]

Hehe

[@NorwaysGreatestSon]

You are correct with no way of communication using satellites Posts offices and Carrier Pigeons would be back in business but it will take a long time to fix the market crash

[@devathma]

ok.

[@NorwaysGreatestSon]

Also how about radios? Cant they be still useful because they were made in 1890 and the first satellite was in October 4 1957? -Credits are Google,Wikipedia, and www.nasa.gov

[@2nd3rd1st]

That's why you shouldn't insult your weird neighbourhood pigeon guy, he might become your last lifeline to civilisation

[@tiramisu1886]

That was really cool, but horrifying at the same time

[@YourBestSpal]

Why am I already scared

[@Kevin-sy8uf]

welcome the anxiety team *breathes heavily*

[@absurdcamus6026]

Wait a minute...this isn’t Kurzgesagt!

[@gamesandspace]

Never had been

[@prashantnook]

I always thought it was "Kurtzgesagt" lol

[@joksizantos7520]

Kurzgesasgt wants to nuke the Moon

[@abhishekchaudhary6975]

Talking about spelling it, I don't even know how to pronounce it.

[@KimiHayashi]

dun, dun , DUN!

[@lodgin]

While losing all satellites would be a huge loss, we wouldn't lose the internet. Some of the internet's infrastructure relies on satellites, yes, but most of the internet's infrastructure is copper cable and fibre optics, ocean cables and national backbones. It's true that people on ships, on planes, and in very remote areas will have issues, but most people will still have access to information.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Reddit would probably explode when this happens Explode as in a lot of people looking for what happened and not literally

[@engivalr]

Yeah, this video gets a lot wrong. Your cell phone does not talk to space. Most cell towers use a fiber backhaul. Stock traders wouldn't be caught dead using a high latency connection from space. Satellites don't have anywhere near the bandwidth to act as a major internet backbone. There's also no time sync device that will go haywire due to a loss of GPS signal, or it would go nuts all the time. There's also plenty of ground based time services that don't rely on GPS timers.

[@cookieflavoredoreo4685]

Almost all phone navigation uses cell tower timing for location, not gps. So a lot of people would still be able to get around. Also most traffic lights are either totally isolated running by themselves or use an internet connection through a cell tower or ground cable.

[@clayel1]

They don’t necessarily say we would lose the internet.

[@lodgin]

@@clayel1 They kind of do though.. at 2:46 they suggest that "even in the best case our civilisation will be set back decades" showing the year 1950 and then showing a person's phone with no signal, and then showing how we'd be returning from the internet back to radio.

[@toahero5925]

"since most objects sent to space are not designed with disposal in mind" International regulations require satelites operators to submit an end-of-life plan before launch.

[@rohanbanerjee_]

Every government agency after watching this must start gathering manuals from half a century ago

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

USA: *moves attention away from nasa and pulls money out of their budget* Nasa:

[@marcocasario1249]

Let The truth be told. Stock Are very good no doubt, but investing in forex and crypto market is not a bad idea with it current status, I was skeptical when I started investing but no more, it has really proven to be very profitable

[@sophiamia4363]

That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Mr Edward Jones

[@suzanne7285]

I was introduced to him by my colleagues few months ago after I lost about $40,000 USD in the stock market crash, he has helped me stand on my feet and recover all I lost in the stock market and even more than bitcoin trading

[@sallymartinez1521]

Expert Edward Jones has been managing my trade for months and I keep making profits every week , made $9,130 last week

[@user-lq3qn4tg2s]

My first investment with Mr Edward Jones gave me the assurance that has made me invest without the fear of losing, I got four of my friends involved with him already

[@TheDhammaHub]

Goodbye mobile communication and goodbye large parts of the internet

[@devathma]

ok.

[@yelpkelp9134]

Aand HELLO messenger pigeons!

[@yelpkelp9134]

@@xmarksthespot6699 admit it, pigeons would be WAY cooler than fiber optics though

[@DUKEisALIVE]

uhmmm both of those dont normally travel trough satellites

[@yelpkelp9134]

@@DUKEisALIVE yea, that’s kinda the point.

[@naveenkumaryadav889]

They are actually answering all the questions which use to came in our mind in childhood ... ( And now we don't care them ) .

[@hakimdiwan5101]

But you secretly do care otherwise you wouldn't have watched their videos.

[@lifelonglearner1863]

@@hakimdiwan5101 EXACTLY!

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

I hated it when the questions came in my mind... all that white matter...

[@k-sansenpai7774]

Covid19, No Satellite, No internet The book readers : doesn't look so bad to me.

[@Gamepro2112]

I used to be a signal soldier. We trained during certain exercises on how to communicate long distance without satellites for any reason we don’t have access to the satellites. The ground work was laid down years ago for long range radio, my unit had people maintain the towers as well so that we could still use them. Idk how well covered the US is but it’s covered well enough that we can continue to be an effective force.

[@adrianeclipperton1543]

LIT BRO

[@charlieangkor8649]

Today we have fiber optic cables spanning the globe. The Internet would still work fine.

[@shots-shots-shotseverybody2707]

You have some kind of misunderstanding. No outer earth atmosphere satellite is used for any telecommunications or internet communications around the world that's all done by cable and underground and above the ground cables and no satellite out of the atmosphere of Earth is used for any commercial military or private navigation on aircraft that's all done by ground base stations as well

[@shots-shots-shotseverybody2707]

​@@charlieangkor8649same with navigations as no space satellites are used for any navigation related to military, commercial, and private, navigation of aircraft

[@neilburnside398]

Solar Flare 2021: Your kingdom has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

[@lizily3317]

This needs to be turned into a movie or a book

[@raghav8511]

true 😂

[@tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.2841]

And now thnks for the idea , I need to do this for you now my audience...

[@dontsetyourlimitsyt4939]

Seeing the title, I thought it was a "What If" video! 😂😂😂

[@jasonbailey9139]

If only we had a ground-based, low latency communication system that could relay data at the speed of light.

[@sarasotauptoseattle]

IKR?!? I think Ted might be out of his depth on this one.

[@naomorra]

How are we going to clean earth's orbit? Space debris removal would be a great topic for a video!

[@muhammadmohtashim1233]

Who else agrees that they learnt more from KZbin than they learnt from college. At least I have.

[@shivannapv4262]

I agree

[@pauljustin9583]

@@imiss1d968 I think that was intentional... :P

[@danangheloiu1499]

That really makes me wonder what you have been doing in college al those years

[@zippymcfearson2776]

@@imiss1d968 No, collage. Get your magazines and scissors and paste ready.

[@bri1085]

Don't remember learning anything from looking at a collage

[@analyzetheblock1157]

Well the show will just move from the tv screen to outside my window 🍿

[@RazStormlord]

Honestly, THE most terrifying Ted video ever

[@akes9793]

That’s why I don’t get flat-earthers

[@XOPOIIIO]

Nobody cares until it happened. 2020 prooves that nobody prepares for rare disruptive events.

[@unXpectedM]

Me: Watching this video Satellite: vanishes suddenly Me: *B R U H*

[@akashbavishi6615]

TedEd be like-joke is on us😂🤣

[@saumitrachakravarty]

2:14 I don't know if it's random but Bangladesh is left out of the countries that declare national emergency under this hypothetical scenario!

[@azhaanshaikh2007]

The animation and the quality of videos never ever disappoints me. Great video Ted-Ed👍👍

[@danielrhouck]

I think you’re overstating the harm. Yes, it would be large, but most of the Internet goes through fiber; that would still work. The markets could adjust to NTP instead of PTP timestamps, which are still more accurate than anyone needs for non-computer purposes. Navigation and a *small* amount of communication would be the hardest of the things you mentioned to bring back up

[@typreegamingtpg2198]

It’s amazing how much our world benefits from our discoveries in space, yet depressing how some deny they ever happened at all

[@imiss1d968]

Ted-ed: what if satellite disappears Me: I'll call my friends/family...., I'll search about it on internet.... Hey wait i can't do that ahhh!!!

[@cookieflavoredoreo4685]

Unless you live in the middle of nowhere and have satellite internet, your internet would still work perfectly fine. Also you phone connects to cell towers which connect to an underground cable.

[@charlieangkor8649]

False. You can still use the Internet at almost full capacity without satellites.

[@srininaladala1564]

When you are so early that the comments are seconds ago

[@wahyutriwibowo1803]

"Hey lets test our anti-satellite weapons in space! What could possibly go wrong anyway?" Said many countries leaders

[@alexanderguiragossian1038]

Very eye-opening, the vulnerability of modern society on satellites is somethi9ng that should be studied.

[@Sim9]

FYI for the timing failure (which leads to some of the biggest consequences) is extremely unlikely if only satellites go down. Network Time Protocol (NTP) has multiple high quality reference clocks, which yes includes satellite references, but also includes ground based reference clocks. These would still be reachable via ground-based internet systems (fiber/copper). So in the asteroid scenario, timing is no big problem. Of course, it would only be the tip of the iceberg of problems in the solar flare scenario that takes out anything with a microchip...

[@yurtingyinkmonger1662]

thanos: modern problems require modern solutions

[@--TOM--]

*snaps all satellites out of existence*

[@shreeyamittal1771]

Now _that_ is the best example of a bad 'Eureka!' moment.

[@raghav8511]

😂

[@dkaloger5720]

I was about to do a presentation on the importance of space exploration ,thank you .

[@DavidHartsough]

This feels like a kurzgesagt video. You all should collab and team up!

[@BitterTast3]

This is the danger of relying too much on interconnectedness.

[@waccsadac]

im not sure "all satellites suddenly disappearing" is a situatuon we need to plan for

[@RK-ep8qy]

We'd still be connected, you don't need satellites for internet and phone communication

[@Romeo7610]

Love how TED-Ed makes such small simple questions that maybe won't come across my head astonishing and mind blowing with those simple detailed answers! Just amazing♥️

[@sarasotauptoseattle]

Except this time Ted is wrong.

[@Romeo7610]

@@sarasotauptoseattle Is there anything special you noticed that I've missed?!

[@sarasotauptoseattle]

@@Romeo7610 If we lost all satellites, we would still have copper, fiber and cell technology. Continents are connected by underwater fiber optics and there is redundancy built into most modern day computing and communication systems. Losing satellites would hinder things like GPS and satellite internet, but we wouldn't go back to the dark ages like the video suggests.

[@Romeo7610]

@@sarasotauptoseattle I totally agree with you that it won't take us 70 years back neither to the dark ages ... But I do really believe that the sudden loss of the international communication systems like GPS will provoke unwilled results not because of technology itself but because of political and regional related cases. I Really appreciate your words btw 🙌🏻💙

[@sarasotauptoseattle]

@@Romeo7610 It would definitely be bad. That's for sure. I'm not trying to minimize it, but it wouldn't cause an accidental nuclear war or anything like that. It would be a communications nightmare for governments, airlines, financial systems, etc., but it still wouldn't halt communication completely. We communicate (globally) without satellites right now.

[@infinite_group]

Ted in 2015: "What if there's a new virus outbreak" Me: "That's never gonna happen lol"

[@starboysuniverse9956]

My grandpa still have those 80s phone in his house. when i asked why, he said the new tech nowadays cant be fully trusted so this was his backup plan. it still didn't make sense to me until now.

[@stefanbuist]

That phone won't be any more or less affected then your smartphone

[@starboysuniverse9956]

@@stefanbuist i guess, but rolling phone dont use satellite i think they use cables

[@stefanbuist]

@@starboysuniverse9956 cellphones don't use satellites either they use cell towers

[@starboysuniverse9956]

@@stefanbuist hmm good point so only the internet will shut down but not calls. well i doubt that. the place where all the stuff is managed like the office that holds your record if you have paid your mobile plan or not will all shut down now that could have a big impact onvyour calls, i mean my mobile usually runs out when i haven't payed my plan so i dont think they will still work

[@stefanbuist]

@@starboysuniverse9956 the thing is the internet would keep working. That claim in this vid rather unfounded as the internet just doesn’t really rely on satellites. If it failed basically all calls are routed over the internet at some point so all calls would fail (on consumer networks).

[@julia-xs5vc]

um- well this is scary

[@klyderain8817]

I bet there's going to be that one James Bond villain that develops a superweapon capable of deactivating satellites.

[@RAM-DOMation]

Ahh that starting sound is so satisfying, It fits perfectly for every TED-ED video.

[@springbok4015]

0:51 Not necessarily. GPS makes navigation a lot easier and is more accurate on longer flights. That being said, just remember that aircraft (like ships) were crossing oceans before GPS was launched. Aircraft are equipped with secondary means of navigation. Pilots are trained to make use of alternative navigation fallback systems. These include VOR/DME and NDB beacons which make use of radio transceivers for tracking. The good old compass can also be used rudimentarily. Digital maps can also be used, even if not plotted using GPS. Air traffic control will still be able to track aircraft via radar and transponders, so they’re perfectly able to coordinate airspace and arrivals/departures. I’d say that aircraft would not be grounded if this were to occur. I’d imagine the same for ships. Solar flares are a huge threat though as these could very well knock out modern technology, power grids, radios etc.

[@kaelon9170]

Many VOR/DME stations have gone out of service and only a fraction of what we had a couple decades ago remains today though. I don't actually think there are enough VOR/DME systems in operation right now to sufficiently navigate with. That being said, most, if not all modern airliners also have intertial reference systems that track the movements of the aircraft itself to determine where on the globe it is. IRS systems can probably take over navigation on short and medium haul flights. They require entering the coordinates of the aircraft when initialising the IRS system but those can simply be pulled from a map. IRS loses accuracy over time making it unfit for ocean crossings though. But perhaps a combination of IRS with VOR/DME beacons located on the coast could make cross-ocean navigation feasible again without satellites.

[@MrGlenardan]

TedED: What if satellite disappear? 2021: *smirks*

[@cassiusdalcazarosta8010]

Fact, it can be possible, as illustrated in the video in an event called Kessler Syndrome. It happens when a satellite (or any object in space) hits another satellite, then that same satellite hits 4 more, then 16, then 128, and so on.

[@senorswordfish6019]

2021: Imma bout to do what 2020 didn't

[@obaldius]

I can't agree, I don't understand how TED links everything to satellites. We still have landlines, even now it 's called fiber. And cellphonestowers here don't use satellites...

[@faizmohammad8569]

Aumsum be like. What am I supposed to do now? 😆

[@dksquad2045]

Huh?

[@arjunchopra3611]

ur vids r cool

[@caitlin8893]

TedEd answering questions i never thought of but now think of

[@ClairandHerImaginaryCat]

Imagine you’re watching this video then your screen just shuts down...

[@sarasotauptoseattle]

I would check my circuit breaker.

[@slzzx]

Just needed this🔥

[@devathma]

ok.

[@Nominals75]

Can you imagine a commercial airplane pilot pulling out a map to see where you are? 😳

[@JJAPasco]

Ted-Ed do be slamming us with lessons everyday

[@thomascoolidge2161]

Atomic time connected to the internet is used by many internet connected devices. While losing GPS would seriously affect mobile devices, there is plenty of redundancy available for things like bank transfers/transactions, stock trades, military, and governments where needed.

[@abdoullahmitiche8405]

"Economy collapses and our civilization gets set back by decades at the very least"... And I'm like: "My sport watch won't pick up GPS signal. How would I record my runs (and rides)?!" 😅

[@justan8-bitm0nk3y9]

I'm thanking God 2020 didn't think of this

[@darter9000]

It’s amazing how our satellites became like stars for more than our navigational purposes, but also for economic and entertainment purposes. I wonder how often we launch new satellites though.

[@AwesomeBoysJPTV]

Ted-Ed: * Makes a What If Video * What If: Wait, that's Illegal!

[@mikeshane2048]

I like way the narrator calmly talks about total destruction of modern civilization. 😂

[@cinnamonxguy]

Satellites suddenly disappeared, meaning no technology. Me: Proceeds to wear my medieval outfit and starts a new life

[@MangOnang611]

Dark Souls then?

[@alexmaclean1]

I didn't realize the internet relied so much on satellites (other than for rural connections), so that's something I've learned today.

[@EnricoDias]

But it doesn't. This video gets a lot of things wrong. The internet uses mostly fiber optics cables and would be fine without satelites.

[@2nd3rd1st]

Thanks for creating this anxiety that I didn't know I had...

[@shivangdwivedi3489]

Ted Ed doing"what if" What if: mai kya karu , job chhod doon fir

[@ananya.a04]

Lol

[@biomedcraze]

WHAT IF ALL SATELLITES DISAPPEARS? Sokka's girlfriend: *boop*

[@lunacouer]

Why oh why did I click on this? _shivers in 2020 flashbacks_

[@shubhammangla8777]

Meanwhile 'just another day' for people living in villages growing their own food, sitting in community for chat and entertainment.

[@banzand]

I’m amused at the writer’s need to apply the present tense.....

[@vinodkhobragade5225]

After the "world's most dangerous fart 🍑💨" of ted-ed to this video is the goodly recommended in nottification

[@dreglanoth3320]

Ted-Ed: What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? Elon Musk: Hold my my beer!

[@Sasataf]

2:13 Most countries declare a state of emergency. New Zealand: Yeah nah, we're chilling.

[@user-cv1jb9xv2p]

India's traffic will not stop wheather the satellites stay or disappear

[@johnjohn-6256]

Isn’t the moon also a satellite, just a natural one? That would certainly mess us up a lot like the tides. But there’d be more stars at night tho.

[@devathma]

no.

[@johnjohn-6256]

@@devathma Just grabbed this from a NASA article: A satellite is an object that moves around a larger object. Earth is a satellite because it moves around the sun. The moon is a satellite because it moves around Earth. But you’re also right since same article also mentions this: But usually when someone says "satellite," they are talking about a "man-made" satellite. Man-made satellites are machines made by people. These machines are launched into space and orbit Earth or another body in space.

[@june756]

@@devathmano , moon is the only satellite of earth . And others are artificial.

[@pritamptr662]

today my student asked me this question. And now here is this video😁

[@gcross82]

This is so absurd it makes me angry. Most of the core technology for most of the services here are fiber optic, not satellite. It would not be nearly this devastating in the short term.

[@gcross82]

And this terrible ted talk forgot the second most important thing we'd lose. Weather forecasting.

[@MANOJYADAV-gn6kg]

Alien exists Ted ed : Hold my beer Michael

[@ethane3652]

This video: *exists* Me: *looks at 2021* Don’t.

[@charlie-zk4se]

someone make a movie out of this concept I think it would be pretty cool

[@nothingsushere]

The most intresting/fun/horrifying concept in one video

[@ind0266]

For one thing, we wouldn’t have this video or the rest of the internet to guide us.

[@noammanakermorag9538]

Me before watching: Oh we just replace them in like 6 months

[@sreejasrivaram8250]

Hmmm, Paper manufacturing economy goes full swing for the mails, pigeons are the new fav pet, airplanes are out of orders. Thats all I can think now....

[@TotallyAHuman]

idk why, but when he mentioned the collisions of satellites, my brain immediately made up cinematic scenes of satellites crashing into each other and spewing debris, with earth in the background

[@dksquad2045]

Ok?

[@CurlyGenius6000]

2021: Write that down

[@shaunakn5881]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love Ted-ed so I gave them a view ;)

[@subhayansinha4417]

This is great ❤️❤️. Could you guys please make one for How would the Earth Look without Global Warming and Other Man Made Disasters like animal extinction and stuff?

[@ZeoViolet]

Me: _Pats landline trustingly_ Well I hope....

[@8cto289]

Sattelites: *die* Almost the entire world: *collapses into fragmented city-states struggling to obtain food and water* People living in rural Africa: “Amateurs”

[@Wired4Life2]

Most people on small- to medium-sized farms would express similarly.

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

Hundreds of millions of Internet connections would vanish, or be severely overloaded. A similar number of cell phones would be rendered useless. In remote areas, people dependent on satellite for television, Internet, and radio would practically lose all service👍

[@nickolas.h]

Satellites: *exist* Sun at 3:36: *I will now end this man's whole career*

[@sgtcrash4775]

Excellent Excellent video. I enjoyed it

[@raghavchauhan6475]

OLA

[@arjunchopra3611]

When ur fast

[@DionDPR]

But not fast enough

[@photelegy]

But isn't the most internet traffic going through fiber optic cable (without the need of safelites)? Like banking, TV-shows, home internet, ...

[@yhakim2]

Ted-Ed: What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? Me: Tides go away and tsunamis appear Ted-Ed: No, not that one

[@aaryaaa933]

Intellectual joke

[@raghav8511]

@@aaryaaa933 tru that